Impacts of Continued Global Warming
Provided by: CK-12|Published on: April 27, 2021|Last updated: September 26, 2026
Grades: 6, 7, 8
Type: Videos
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences
Authors: CK-12
Location: Earth
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Synopsis
- This interactive textbook lesson includes text, data, and a video about the impact of continued global warming on the planet.
- Review questions and an interactive quiz will help students to reflect on the information in the lesson.
Teaching Materials
Positives
- The resource clearly outlines what will happen to life on Earth if global temperatures continue to rise.
- The quiz at the end of the chapter allows students and teachers to gain immediate feedback.
- Teachers can edit and add additional resources to the chapter.
- When signed in, students have access to a toolbar, which allows them to highlight, take notes, and view additional information.
Additional Prerequisites
- Students should have an understanding of climate change.
- Students should be able to read and interpret picture data.
- Teachers and students must sign in to use some of the interactive features.
- The video was published in 2011, so teachers may want to select more recent videos to show with the lesson.
Differentiation
- Teachers could use the Review questions as writing prompts for student science journals.
- Creative writing students could write two versions of the same short story set in the year 2100. In one version global temperatures will have risen 5°C and in the other version, humans will have stopped emitting greenhouse gases, putting an end to global warming.
Students can explore this resource to understand the state of CO2. Although the model limits prediction to 2050s, recent models like CMIP6 could predict the warmings to 2100 scenarios accurately. This resource is recommended.
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